Elsevier Software Engineer interview experience

One technical question asked about finding the closest palindrome given a date formatted as year, month, and day, and the rest leaned into why Elsevier and describing a specific instance from my experience.

In another similar setup, I interviewed with two lead members from different engineering teams. The format stayed mostly behavioral with a single logic question at the end. Before the longer conversation, there was a half-hour recruiter call, which helped me settle in.

Across both experiences, it felt like the interviews were measuring how I thought and communicated, not just how fast I